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Chan790

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11. For the most part.

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 2, 2016, 03:28 PM

Apr 2016

You are forgetting a few variables...there are states in the Democratic column where either Hillary or Bernie are not popular and Trump is...it's a very real possibility that he wins some states away from us by taking Democratic voters that would never vote Republican but will vote for him.

It's unlikely that it gets kicked to the House; I'm not ready to declare it impossible.

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